Review: A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
This delicate and insightful two-hander presents both the playwright and the company at their most skilled.…
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Review: THE VISIT at Pasadena Playhouse
Tony winner Darko Tresnjak directs a nuanced and unsettling update of the 1956 Swiss play, adapted here by Maurice Valency.…
Review: World Premiere Musical WILD CHILD Debuts at Laguna Playhouse
Featuring book and lyrics by Dan Marshall and music by composer Julianne Wick Davis, WILD CHILD is an ambitious, sincerely earnest, and, at times, cleverly innovative new musical about a group of teenagers who are forced to join an outdoor wilderness therapy program where they must grapple with iden…
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Hollywood Pantages
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS bears the imprint of its original director, the uber-talented Jessica Stone, and a team of collaborators who span a whole mess of creative genres. Along with their marvelous ensemble, they take us away.…
Review: ANTIGONE: IN THE LANGUAGE OF KINGS at Getty Villa & Latino Theater Company
Beneath the florid poetry, the stunningly-detailed costumes, and the imagistic staging, Sophocles would instantly recognize the overarching humanity that has carried his play through the centuries.…
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Encore Theatre Company
Rooted in Faustian legend, a horticultural horror musical takes over Tulare for the next three weeks. Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors highlights the dangers of greed and talking plants as destitute protagonist Seymour Krelbourn discovers his mysterious fly-trap plant may sud…
Review: PERICLES at Theater At Boston Court
In staging the west coast premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern verse translation, director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck and her cast are working their Helicanuses and Thaisas off to keep this lesser-staged romance punchy and relevant…
Review: THE ARSONISTS at Skylight Theatre
Swiss writer Max Frisch’s post–World War II absurdist satire THE ARSONISTS hit Los Feliz like a blow torch, scorching everything in its path.…
Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at A Noise Within
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
Review: IN THE TOMB OF TEN THOUSAND CALENDARS at Moving Arts Theatre
Actor WEST LIANG, delivers deeply nuanced, emotionally quiet, and completely resonant character portrayals that enhance each time capsule, in this play about historical and generational change.…
Past Shows
107 total · showing 51–60
FeaturedShostakovich and Prokofiev with Ludovic Morlot
Ludovic Morlot leads one of Shostakovichs greatest symphonies, depicting the despair of the Stalin regime but ending in a musical triumph. Formidable pianist Sergio Tiempo takes on the striking concerto Prokofiev composed for himself to play in the conservatorys competitionwhich...
FeaturedAndy Shauf Haley Heynderickx
Andy Shauf is one of the sharpest songwriters of his generation. He possesses a novelists eye for detail and a painters sense of setting, giving his songs a depth and dimension thats won him comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, and other masters of the craft. He dresses...
FeaturedWayne Shorter Celebration • Ambrose Akinmusire — Origami Harvest
Members of the Wayne Shorter quartet and special guests pay homage to the unique musical vision of this living legend, whose 2018 album Emanon was hailed as the years best jazz recording by The New York Times. Oakland trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire presents selections from his...
FeaturedJay Campbell + inti figgis-vizueta
Think performance art as you approach this play-oriented re-encountering of the space where live music is made, concocted by the team of boundary-less composer inti-figgis-vizueta and Jay Campbell, the remarkable cellist whose repertoire knows no bounds.
FeaturedAmerican Youth Symphony Sounds About Town
The outstanding American Youth Symphony returns with a program titled INTERSECTIONS that primarily focuses upon living composersfrom Unsuk Chin to Jimmy Lopezhighlighted by Jennifer Higdons Prize-winning Violin Concerto, featuring Grammy-nominated Tessa Lark. Carlos Izcaray...
FeaturedElgar and Tchaikovsky
Composed in the wake of WWIs shocking horror, Edward Elgars Cello Concerto reflects a new seriousness and darkened profundity in his music. Our soloist, Camille Thomaswhose playing Gramophone describes as unfailingly exquisite in its tonal sheen and imaginative detailputs her...
FeaturedHerbie HanC*CK
Our Creative Chair for Jazz is impossible to hem in, an artistic force whos spent decades in pursuit of the next interesting sound. No matter if hes playing acoustic post-bop or head-bobbing funk, any appearance byHerbie Hancockis a cant-miss evening.
FeaturedMon Laferte
Singer and songwriter Mon Laferte is one of the most revered, respected, and beloved musicians in Chile today. Her music brings the sonic traditions of her native country and Mexico, where she lives, with the maximalist punch of globally minded pop music, while her lyrics...
FeaturedSalonen Leads Bartók, Bjarnason, and Sibelius
Bartks groundbreaking and eerie Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta launches a rich, full program that ends with Sibelius final symphony, the one-movement Seventh, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen who The New Yorker raved was born to conduct Sibelius. In between, a...
FeaturedPekka Kuusisto + Ellen Reid
The adventurous Pekka Kuusisto, who successfully premiered Danel Bjarnasons Violin Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl 2019, returns as the protagonist for the recent piece by the prolific Nico Muhly, conducted by the one-and-only Esa-Pekka Salonen. Kuusisto also collaborates on this...
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CLUB27 Jaxx Theatre (10/01-10/30) |
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Crone Creed El Portal Theatre (9/30-10/17) |
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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A Killer Night in Studio City Vitello's (9/06-10/31) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Dinner with Friends Santa Monica Playhouse (9/26-9/27) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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New Works Festival Shoebox Theatre (9/11-9/26) |
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Worthy The Un-Erasable Solo Festival - Willie Agee Playhouse (9/12-9/25) |
